The New York Hall of Science is hosting a Master Magician Contest in anticipation of the opening of the blockbuster exhibition Magic: The Science of Illusion on June 28.
Content: create a video of yourself performing your favorite magic trick to illustrate the connection between science and magic. Max 2 min. Deadline of video contest submission: June 9 2008 Eligibility: Adult (15 and older) and Kids (14 and younger) categories (of the USA?) Prize: The title “Master Magician of the New York Hall of Science,” along with a Magic Prize Package including a $50 gift certificate to the Hall, will be awarded to the producer of the top video in both adult (15 and older) and kids (14 and younger) categories. The three top finalists in each category will receive New York Hall of Science t-shirts. Rules of video contest: NYScience.org
Here’s Card Science as an example for the contest by Elizabeth Wade
Although War on War music video contest is linguistically based on a paradox with its motto – not that ‘peace on war’ would have sounded better, here we are in a language virus trap. But let’s just move on from the motto. The contest is based on Sam Harris’ song entitled War on War and the aim is ”
to counter the GOP’s stance of “staying the course.”
Content: submit videos of War on War using the song and any free stuff that is made available to you. Deadline of video contest submission: June 22 2008 Eligibility: anybody Prize: mixture of cash and other good stuff, $3000 for the first, $1500 for the second and $700 for the third winner, in its total value. Rules of video contest: SamHarris.com
” The contest is open for anyone who wants to express their anger, passion and vision of a world without war by creating a video to my song. Resources for free video creation software, tools, video footage and royalty free photography from war documentarian, active duty Marine Jayel Aheram are provided at WarOnWar.INFO and additional contest information at SamTube.com. … We are supplying everything needed to create a music video, at no expense to the contestant: The song, royalty free photography, vintage and current event stock footage, and the software to put it all together. Of course the more inventive entries use their own footage and find other components., but basically, people don’t even need a video camera or equipment. We currently have entries ranging from a 16 (year old boy) to 60 (year old woman).”
Inspired by Moby’s anti-KFC “Disco Lies” video—from his acclaimed Last Night album–in which “Colonel Sanders” is cut to pieces, peta2, the world’s largest youth animal rights organization, is holding a contest at peta2.com for the best amateur animal rights-themed video.
Content: Videos entered in the contest can address any animal rights issue, including factory farming, circus cruelty, animal experimentation, and many more. Max 3 min Deadline of video contest submission: May 27 2008 Eligibility: sorry, I couldn’t find any specifications, please contact Pulin Modi 757-622-7382 Prize: The winner will receive a brand-new giant chicken costume–just like the one that PETA uses at KFC protests around the world–plus peta2 merchandise. And the winning video will be posted on peta2’s wildly popular blog. Rules of video contest: on peta.org
The MindMashup video contest takes its inspiration from a quote from George Bernard Shaw: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” This year’s Sparky contest is being organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) with additional co-sponsorship by the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, Penn Libraries (at the University of Pennsylvania), Students for Free Culture, and The Student PIRGs. Details are online at http://www.sparkyawards.org.
“This video contest is an excellent venue to engage students and to explore with them the intricacies of re-using content,” said Anu Vedantham, Director of the Weigle Information Commons at Penn Libraries. “The videos that emanate from this and similar contests provide vibrant examples of student creativity and ownership of new media. At Penn, I have noticed that mashup video contests and video classroom assignments engage students and faculty in new ways with academic material, and that video creation can be effectively integrated in many disciplines including writing, history and language studies. Through involvement with the 2009 Sparky Awards, libraries and new media centers have a valuable opportunity to reach out to faculty and students” said SPARC Executive Director Heather Joseph.
Content: make a short video to illustrate the power of info sharing. Deadline of video contest submission: Nov 30 2008 Eligibility: To be eligible, submissions must be publicly available on the Internet – on a Web site or in a digital repository – and available for use under a Creative Commons License. Prize: The Winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 along with a Sparky Award statuette. Two Runners Up will each receive $500 plus a personalized award certificate. Rules of video contest: http://www.sparkyawards.org/
Ball State Senior Jagjeet Singh Chahal a $1,000 scholarship from Miles Electric Vehicles in an Earth Day Video Contest. What’s more, the California-based company gave an $18,000 electric car (top speed of 25 miles per hours) to Ball State University.
“In the architecture program they are pushing us that in every design you have to have some kind of a sustainable feature,” said Chahal. For example just in a design using passive, solar system instead of using artificial lighting.
Here’s the video made by Chahal on Youtube. Title: No Gas Required
And here’s another video entry on gas fueled cars vs electric and hybrid cars made by Michelle Mann that I liked pretty much.
Anyway, Ball State University’s Natural Resources Club has been preparing for a year for today’s Earth Day event, “No Student left inside.” According to NewsLinkIndiana, students took part in geocaching, a game where you use a GPS device with a location off the web to find hidden items. Besides, there was a solar powered fan operator, and students had to figure out how to connect the wires in order to get the fans to work. Anything interactive and green and fun is doing good for Earth Day. :)
Check out more video contests in an easy to use detailed calendar.
Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. wants to tap into your talent, so now you a chance to show how Oklahoma downtown progress is going on and to win a $1,500 cash award in a video contest.
content: show developments in Downtown Oklahoma City in spirit of the Oklahoma Creativity Project (increased residential housing, new hotels and mixed-use developments, expanded events, office space, entertainment and development of the Oklahoma River) – in max 2 min prizes: $1,500 cash award, a $1,000 transferable scholarship to Oklahoma City University, participation and recognition at the Dean A. McGee Awards and featured placement on the Downtown OKC Web site for one year deadline: May 2 further information: 235-3500.
The title of the Step Forward video contest was inspired by Kofi Annan ’61 when he said, “We all have the power to make choices. We can choose to be silent and turn away. Or we can Step Forward and take action.
content: show what Macalester alumni enjoy, and what’s unique about Macalester to potential donors, e.g. the quality of work Macalester students can produce, as well as many different perspectives about student life today – max 5 min prize: up to $5,000 deadline: Sept. 15 2008 aim: “the college hopes the capital campaign will draw in $150 million dollars over the next few years. The money will go toward financial aid, faculty salaries, the new Fine Arts center, Institute for Global Citizenship and the Macalester Athletic Recreation Center.” (via the MacWeekly)
Step Forward Events Coordinator Karlyn Wegmann
Florida launched a video contest in order to protect St Johns River, and several high school students participated in the contest in the hope of sending out the green message and to win the grand prize of the contest: $1,000. I think this video contest was a truly good example of a, involving kids b, being preventive about how kids will be thinking of their own water resources c, answering an existing environmental problem
The hope is that the video contest would bring students in on water issues, including the controversy that surrounds tapping the river to alleviate the potential water shortage, he said. “Kids are really not included. They don’t have a seat at the table yet. Kids have as much, or more, to lose,” he said. Orth said the videos were not to include conservation tips — that has been done. Instead, Riverkeeper wanted a “compelling message” about why water conservation is necessary. According to the Riverkeeper Web site, each resident along the St. Johns waterway uses as much as 150 gallons of water daily, about 50 gallons more per day than the national per-person average. The organization wants lawmakers to look at other means before tapping the St. Johns River to solve the water crisis. (from Orlando Sentinel )
Here’s a video of Florida St Johns river, the St. Johns-Econlockhatchee Mosaic, one of seven critical natural habitats in Central Florida that need to be preserved for future generations. (2006
Sick Profits Video Contest gives you a chance to criticize the current problems of the health insurance industry. The sponsor is Northwest Federation of Community Organizations.
content: making fun at corporate health insurance, bring about changes and fight for a guaranteed health care system for everyone in the US. Parody is key.
Some themes:
Health insurance companies care more about their profits than about people
Health insurance companies make their money by saying no to people who are applying for insurance and stamping DENIED! on requests for health care
We need to investigate health insurance companies to find out how they weasel out of paying for health care and where their money really goes
Health insurance companies split us apart by age, health status, etc. rather than supporting a health care system that works for everyone in our communities
prize: $1,000 eligibility: over 18-year-old US residents
As Gale is celebrating National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008), it announced a YouTube video contest for ‘songwriters’ who are willing to perform love songs to their favorite book or author. “The contest encourages booklovers to literally sing the praises of their favorite books and authors during this year’s Books & Authors contest.” (PRweb)
content: sing your love you song to your favorite books (OK, not every book may inspire such a love song…) prize: $5,000 Grand Prize, more precisely: The video with the most votes will be awarded the Grand Prize of $5,000. The songwriter(s)/performer(s) will be awarded $2,500; the other $2,500 will go to the library of the winner’s choice. So win half the prize for your favorite library! deadline: May 31 2008 eligibility: for over 13 year old residents further info and video contest rules: on Gale
Here’s a nice video of the Librareo Lounge from the official contest group:
Check out further online video contests in a quick overview in this user-friendly Video Contest Calendar.
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